How to Install VLC 3.0 RC in Ubuntu 17.10 and Ubuntu 17.04 Systems. VLC is a popular libre and open source media player and multimedia engine, used by a large number of individuals, professionals, companies and institutions.
Using open source technologies and libraries, VLC has been ported to most computing platforms, including GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, BSD, iOS and Android. VLC can play most multimedia files, discs, streams, allows playback from devices, and is able to convert to or stream in various formats.
Changes in VLC 3.0 include:
- HTTP/2 support.
- Improved UPnP support.
- Adaptive streaming support.
- Early work on Wayland support
- Optional systemd support.
- Support for network browsing with Samba, FTP/SFTP, NFS, and other protocols.
- Support for HDMI passthrough for audio HD codecs.
- Support for output renderers including Google Chromecast.
- Initial support for 360 video/audio.
- Better VA-API support including 10-bit handing, HEVC, and direct rendering support.
- Zero-copy GStreamer video decoding and other zero-copy GPU improvements.
- A variety of new decoders and demuxers.
- Linux/BSD builds now use OpenGL video output by default rather than XVideo.
- VLC also now supports direct rendering with OpenGL using GL 4.4.
Install VLC 3.0 RC
Run the following commands in terminal to install VLC 3.0 rc via snap in Ubuntu and Ubuntu Derivative Systems:
snap apt-get update
snap install vlc --candidate
Once installed, run the following command to launch VLC 3.0:
/snap/bin/vlc